To facilitate the broad conversations, involving scientists and non-scientists as well as academics and non-academics, which are essential to continuing explorations of :
 

• the natural world and humanity's place in it
• the nature of education
• the generation, synthesis, and evaluation of information
• technology and its potentials
• the relationships among forms of creativity and understanding
 
 
 
 

In addition to ongoing working groups and initiatives (see above):
SOME UPCOMING EVENTS AND NEW ACTIVITES

Making Sense of Diversity: A Conversation

A discussion, supported by series of campus events, on-line resources, and an on-line forum. All welcome!

Explorations of Teaching: What, Why, How, and Who

A new project of the Graduate Idea Forum. Monthly meetings and workshops for graduate students and faculty.

Fall 2003 Environmental Studies Speaker Series:

Nov. 6: Thoughts on a multicultural urban ecology.
Alec Brownlow, Asst. Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple Univ.

Nov. 20: Science: tool or weapon on Capitol Hill?
Johanna Polsenberg, Director of Government Relations, National Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research

SOME SUMMER 2003 ACTIVITIES

Summer Institutes for K-12 Teachers:

A series of two-week institutes offered during the summer that bring together Bryn Mawr faculty and precollege teachers:

July 7 - 18: Brain and Behavior: Implications for K-12 Education

July 21 - Aug 1: Bridging Cultures in K-12 Education: Exploration and Emergence

Making Sense of Physics:

An interactive experience for K-12 students under development by Mike Noel and Flora Shepherd

ACTIVITIES EXTENDING BEYOND THE BRYN MAWR COLLEGE CAMPUS ...

Director: Paul Grobstein - pgrobste@brynmawr.edu | Faculty Steering Committee | Secretary: Lisa Kolonay - lkolonay@brynmawr.edu
© 2003, Bryn Mawr College